Bismark Danse sur des Œufs

La Danse des Œufs Politiques
Anonyme, 1863

Une caricature d'abord parue en 1863 dans la Frankfurter Latern, montrant Otto von Bismarck habillé comme une ballerine danse sur œufs étiquetés avec "Loi", "Constitution", "Élections", "Réformes", "Réglementation de la presse".

Political Egg Dance, a cartoon which originally appeared in 1863 in the Frankfurter Latern, showing Otto von Bismarck dressed as a ballerina dancing over eggs labelled with Law, Constitution, Election, Reform, and Press Regulation.

Écrits :
Et il est passé en cet exercice, et il croit que tous restent entiers et qu'aucun n'est cassé. Cassé, non, puisque, comme vous le voyez, il se contente de tourner autour de chacun d'eux.

(Frankfurter Latern, 30 septembre 1863)

Sur les œufs, on lit : Constitution, Lois sur la Presse, Réformes, Élections, Ordonnances.

Democracy's Egg Dance

Democracy’s Disastrous Egg-dance
Joseph Keppler, 1884
Chromolithograph
From Puck Magazine

A woman labeled "Democracy" wearing a blindfold labeled "Stupidity" is pushed by Samuel J. Randall toward a chair labeled "Presidenti[al] Chair", with several eggs in the way on the ground, they are labeled "Honest Naval Appropriation, Civil Service Reform, Honest River - Harbor Appropriation, Economy, Anti-Silver Coinage, National Banking System, Tariff Reform, [and] Prompt Legislation", two of the eggs are broken; among a group of men laughing, in the background on the right, are John Logan, John Sherman, and William D. Kelley.

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Egg Dance (Collier)

Egg Dance

John Maler Collier, 1903
The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK)

Eggs for Ballet

Schwanen Trilogie
Darrel Toulon
Handlungsballett
Graz Opera, Austria, 2009

[...] The stage is all dark as huge eggs are rolled in. From the eggs emerge dancers as swans born adult. [...

[...] The three stories chosen by Toulon include Leda and the Swan, where Zeus comes to Leda in the form of a swan and ravishes her.
A Finish fairy tale, Lemminkäinen in Tuonela, tells the story of Lemminkäinen seeking the hand of a swan maiden (Sibelius, Lemminkäinen in Tuonela).
Finally, Toulon approaches ballet’s mountain in Swan terms – Odette/Odile (Swan Lake, Tschaikowsky). [...]

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Hympty Dumpty Dance

ATOMIC Ballroom

Egg Dance (de Vos)

Eierdans
after Maerten de Vos
anonymous print maker
publisher : Johannes Baptista Vrints, late 16th century

[...]

The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible. Another variation involved tipping an egg from a bowl, and then trying to flip the bowl over on top of it, all with only using one’s feet and staying within a chalk circle drawn on the ground. Although, as shown in many of its depictions in art, the pastime is associated with peasant villages of the 16th and 17th century, one of the earliest references to egg-dancing relates to the marriage of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy on Easter Monday in 1498. The event was described in an 1895 issue of American Magazine. [...]

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Danse de l'Œuf Brésilienne

La révolutionnaire danse de l'œuf du Brésil
Arthur George Racey, 1930-1934
Encre et mine de plomb
© Musée McCord, Montréal
M2005.23.259

Arthur George Racey (1870-1941) was born in Quebec and was a cartoonist for the Montreal Witness and the Montreal Star. Due to the universal nature of his cartoons, Racey gained international recognition and his works were reproduced in numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. Racey is also known for his oil and water colour paintings which hang in private collections throughout Canada. Link.

Des Œufs debout par Curiosité

Unetsu, 1986
Des Œufs debout par Curiosité

(The Egg Stands Out of Curiosity)

Mise en scène, chorégraphie et conception d’Ushio Amagatsu

“ On embrasse du regard un espace vide
En choisissant un point
On essaie de mettre un œuf debout, avec attention. Un dialogue.
D’un seul œuf à plusieurs
L’espace s’emplit d’œufs, qui se multiplient.
De l’unité au groupe
Chaque œuf reste debout, en contact avec le sol.
Avec naturel
Apparemment très à l’aise.
Du point occupé par unité, à l’espace constitué par le groupe qui le partage
On arrête le processus avant qu’il ne devienne étouffant.
On embrasse du regard l’ensemble
L’axe vertical de chaque œuf est dirigé vers le centre de la terre
Et s’élance vers le haut en autant de rayons multiples.
Des ellipsoïdes immobiles sur le plancher.
On essaie de marcher sans les faire tomber
En posant lentement le pied, le talon d’abord.
De face, de profil, de dos
L’expression des œufs change lorsqu’on avance.
On leur fait face, ils nous entourent, nous saisissent par derrière.
On se retourne, ils ne sont plus là.
Un espace vide.
Un voyage.
On recommence à marcher. ”

Ushio Amagatsu

Fondée par Ushio Amagatsu, la compagnie Sankai Juku (littéralement « l’atelier de la montagne et de la mer ») est formée de danseurs de butô.
Né en réaction aux traumatismes laissés par la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le butô est imprégné de bouddhisme et de croyances shintô.

La recherche personnelle de Ushio Amagatsu est basée sur un « Dialogue avec la gravité », titre de son ouvrage paru en 2000 (Ed. Actes Sud). Le danseur utilise la pesanteur non pas comme un adversaire mais comme un allié dans son mouvement.

Pour en savoir plus : Per Diem & Co

Ministerial Egg Dance

The ministerial egg dance
Anonymous
March 22,1879, 19th century
Ink on newsprint - Photolithography
40 x 28.4 cm
Gift of Mr. Colin McMichael
M984.306.1330, © McCord Museum

Egg Dance

Tanzende Bauern beim Eiertanz (Paysans et danse des œufs)
Oberrhein, vers 1510
Dessin à la plume sur le papier
H. 160 mm, L. 218 mm
Badisches Landesmuseum, dessin et estampes

Learn more about Egg Dance and Traditional Music and Dances in the Time of Vermeer.

Eggs for Peace Conference

Egg Dance, 1899
Arpad Schmidhammer

from the German magazine Jugend

Cartoon on the First Hague Peace Conference, 29th July 1899

Hague Conventions

Political Egg Dance

The political Egg-Dance
By Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), c.29 June 1867
Cartoon No.55 in The Earl of Beaconsfield K.G. Cartoon's from
PUNCH magazine

Punch's comment on Disraeli's management of the Reform Bill in the House of Commons.

In Tenniel's political cartoons, the foremost of all performers are the politicians, appearing as theatre managers, actors, fairground, circus and pantomime performers, conjurors, jugglers, magicians and musicians.

Throughout much of the second half of the century, political power alternated between Gladstone’s Liberal party and Disraeli’s Conservative party, and this is reflected in many cartoons, where the two men emerge as the most popular double-act in nineteenth-century politics.
An early example, 'The Balancing Brothers of Westminster' (28 February 1857), portrays them as acrobats to satirise a rare agreement over the Budget. Similarly, in 1867, Disraeli appears as a delicately poised ballet dancer with wrinkled tights stepping delicately around the County and Borough issues of electoral reform in 'The Political Egg-Dance' (29 June 1867).
Gladstone's dancing turn comes in 'His Favourite Part' (2 December 1871)...
"Reduced version of a section" of a thesis, by Gill Stoker in The British Theater Guide.

The Egg Dance (Bruegel)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Can-can

(Ideia de Rutix)

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Walking on Eggs (Aertsen)

Egg Dance, 1552
Pieter Aertsen
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - Oil on panel, 84 x 172 cm

Egg dancing was a popular game played during the springtime folk festivities. First a chalk circle was drawn on the floor. Then, accompanied by bagpipe music, the player would use his feet to roll an egg out of a bowl, keeping it inside the circle, and turn the bowl upside down on top of the egg. All this had to be done without touching the flowers, leaves or anything else - and of course the egg had to remain whole. The first to succeed would win a prize: usually a basket of eggs. Here the basket is shown in the foreground.
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Eggs in London

Egg is an intimate venue with three rooms, an outdoor balcony terrace and an open-air courtyard decorated with Ibizan flair for the summer. The garden has a bar, garden furniture, artificial grass and a large outside covered area perfect for chilling out on those summer evenings. It features a state-of-the-art Funktion One sound system on all three floors and won the BEDA best London club in 2003.

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